Travel Blogs from Charleston

Got up this morning at 6:00 a.m. Anxious to get on the road to get to that warmer weather. Oops, when we tried to close the slide-out in the bedroom the awning on top of it was frozen. A hunt for a ladder, a little wiggle and it was fixed. Phew! Obstacle 1... Check!

7:45 a.m. On the road! No snow. Bonus! Our destination today, a place called Eighty-four, PA. We had arrangements to boondock there, but, obstacle ...

Here we are in Charleston, West Virginia. Charleston was first settled in 1788 when Fort Lee was built on the land that is now the capitol of West Virginia. With close to 50,000 residents in the city limits and over 200,000 in its surrounding metro areas, Charleston ...

Two hours into our trip...and BANG...a rock hits our windshield! This is my first windshield crack in 10+ years in my faithful car (affectionately named "Justin"....don't laugh). Unfortunately it is a large enough crack that we have to replace the windshield in Chicago on Wednesday!! But if this is our first test as husband and wife...we can handle it!! Bring it on honeymoon trip - we are ready for anything...I married an Eagle Scout for a ...

We started out today walking in the small capital city of Frankfurt, Kentucky. As we walked down the street we found out that everyone greets everyone else with a friendly, "Hello." We actually met up with two people twice, and they told us all about some great parts of Frankfurt. In this town many houses were huge, well kept, with large front porches containing old fashioned rocking chairs. Many homes were brick, and the streets often had a few brick steps up to ...